Reconstruction Quiz 1

This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.

• Building Era

• Reconstruction Era

• Rebuild Era

• Post Civil War Era

This organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves. It built thousands of schools.

• Freedom's Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Hope Bureau

• Helpful Bureau

Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew, this was known as _____________

• mixed farming

• multiple cropping

• tilling

• sharecropping

This is the term used when people are treated differently because of the color of their skin.

• equality

• discrimination

• elitism

• disenfranchisement

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the whole country.

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, medical, and education to what group of people?

• poor white Southerners

• former slaves

• American Indians

• Both poor white Southerners and former slaves

Sharecropping was like a new form of slavery, because farmers were always ________________.

• in debt to the landowners

• debt free from the landowners.

• making lots of money from the landowners.

• forced to work certain hours.

Reconstruction is known as the period of rebuilding after the _________ War.

• Civil

• French and Indian

• Great

• Revolutionary

What were three things that the Freedmen's Bureau gave?

• Medicine, Education, Housing
• Food, Education, Medicine
• Housing, Jobs, Right to Vote
• It just provided food. 

What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment?

• Made slavery illegal in the US
• grant citizenship to all former slaves (people born in the US)
• the purpose was to allow all citizens to the right to vote despite skin color
• allow for freedom of religion